LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 34: Training Part 2 - Self
-K-chan Chakra Training-
Sitting inside the Naka Shrine Naruko's eyes were closed. Her breath was slow and rhythmic as she sat there in a meditative stance. Then, ever so slowly red bubbling chakra began to leak from her. It coated her skin, forming massive fox-like chakra ears surrounding her own, and fangs grew jutting out beneath her lips. Beneath her eyelids, her eyes had become red and slitted. Then, a swaying bubbling red chakra tail grew. But she stayed sitting still, calm and relaxed. Slowly, a second one grew, and that was when her body went taut. Her breath hastened as the sound of grinding teeth could be heard.
A low rumble escaped her throat, before ever-so-slowly she began to relax. A moment later a smile would pass on her face. 'Better. It almost doesn't affect me now.' A growl rumbled in the depths of her mind but she ignored it for now. 'Calm.... Keep calm. These are not your emotions. Good.' With a smile, she'd stop pulling on the seal, and the emotions escaped her, and along with them the chakra. 'Now calm down K-chan! We both know that the only reason I'm even training in your chakra is so that I can use it eventually to counter Bijuu-Bombs against other Jinchuriki! If I'm using it on anyone else, then more than likely we're cooperating already.' There was another rumble deep inside of her before all went silent.
Rolling her eyes, she pushed herself up onto her feet. "Always so testy K-chan..."
-Academy Overseer Clone: Calligraphy-
Calligraphy when it came to Fuinjutsu was an interesting chaotic blend that came down to, do whatever the fuck you want. Normal people prescribed to being as rigid, and perfect as possible. Your lines had to have no deviation. Your Kanji had to be textbook perfect. Everything had to be perfect.
Some Uzumaki downed 8 shots and decided to make a summoning contract with the Shinigami. Clearly, there were two types of people.
The boring people, and the Uzumaki. She was a Uzumaki. One could not call her Calligraphy 'ugly'. Because it was not - each stroke was truly beautiful. But, what they could call it - was chaotic. No letter, even when redone would ever be the same. They meandered, dipped, twirled, and swirled - even when they shouldn't. Yet, it was a thing she took some measure of pride in. It was insanity put into the thin embrace of order.
It was her. It also really pissed off every Sensei when she did it on official papers, so she did it on official papers.
-Lightning Jutsu Clone-
Sadly, Lightning was not her primary element, and as such, learning Jutsu was a bit more difficult, and as such she was still on the first 'Namikaze Scroll' when it came to learning Lightning Jutsu.
Taking a deep breath, she'd begin to go through handseals. Dog, Dragon, Rat, Ram. "Lightning Style: Spider Web!" Slamming her hands on the ground a glowing blue web would appear around her, quickly reaching a clone made in the distance, which would instantly pop as she was electrocuted to death. "Mhm... That one is making good progress. What about this one?"
Monkey, Ox, Boar, Tiger. "Lightning Style: Lightning Rat Violent Quake!" Lightning crackled in between her hands before she shoved them forward, and from that lightning numerous disks of sparkling electricity would form before shooting out, slicing through trees before disappearing. "Good, good. I probably won't ever use these Jutsu in combat at this point unless I retrofit them to be able to be used with more Chakra, but they're good for control and understanding Lightning. Hopefully, it won't be long before I can use the second scroll for B-Rank and A-Rank Lightning Style Jutsu. THOSE are the actually useful ones in combat, even at the Kage Level Ninjutsu Specialists primarily use A-Ranks and B-Ranks."
With a grin on her face, she'd continue on in her training.
-Lightning Manipulation Clone-
Lightning Manipulation was just as hard as Water Manipulation, and as such she was still on the first step. With a rock in hand, she'd stare as bit by bit it crumbled. 'Too slow. What I need to do is crumble this entire thing instantly. But... it's progress. Tomorrow I'll swap back to paper crumbling, those two benefit each other. Then it's step two which is in fact a non-jutsu and pure chakra manipulation version of something every lightning style user does. Infusing it into objects. I.E. making your own bootleg lightsaber like Bee and Sasuke constantly do.' Grinning slightly at that because Lightning + Wind infused Sword or Kunai?!? Yes, please!
A moment later she'd continue her training, dreaming of glorious murder.
-Wind Jutsu Clone-
Tiger. Dog. Inhaling, she'd exhale, and a single Titanic sphere of pressured wind would rip out of her mouth and through the air. It touched a tree, which instantly deleted itself from itself before continuing on.
She giggled. "Wind Style: Vacuum Great Sphere is a really good jutsu, y'know! I like it. Definitely worth being A-Rank. Maybe I should pump more chakra into it? Didn't use that much..."
"Please don't... That has to be regrown." She pouted. "Okay. But what if I try ou-"
Captain Bird appeared hands resting on her shoulder. "No. If you overpower A-Rank Jutsu without a Shinobi target to counterbalance them, they destroy too much terrain. Even if it's just the chakra within the bodies of a few dozen chunin as it tears through them."
She groaned. "Fine Bird-san, I won't do it."
"Thank you Lady Uzumaki..." She could hear the sweatdrop, why could she hear the sweatdrop?
-Wind Style Manipulation Clone-
Standing on top of the ceiling titles totally not creeping on a class, ten leaves, one on each finger were slowly being cut. 'God dang bootleg training methods. Noooo you have to stay at the Academy! Pfft. Could have cut that waterfall by now damnit. I could be working on, I don't know, cutting the sky or something.' Rolling her eyes she'd focus back on her training.
-Rasengan Clone-
The Rasengan was a complicated Jutsu, her dad was also stupid. The training after learning Rasengan literally boiled down to pumping more chakra into it, making it grow larger, and then recompressing it back to regular size. Once you did that, you repeated the training to compress it more.
For some asinine reason, her dad broke up 'Odama Rasengan' 'Compression' and 'Cho Odama Rasengan' into different steps. The reality was - Odama Rasengan and Cho Odama Rasengan were just jutsu variants of Rasengan that used up more Chakra and got stronger when Rasengan got stronger. That was it. They were just Rasengans that used more chakra than YOUR typical Rasengan.
Her Rasengan could crush into the dirt a regular Joe's Cho Odama Rasengan, if a regular Joe could use a Cho Odama Rasengan of course. Why did her dad complicate it, and make it involve extra steps?
Because he liked steps. That was literally the only reason. Her Rasengan got stronger. so her Odama Rasengan got stronger. Besides, her dad couldn't even use Cho Odama Rasengan out of Sage mode, unless he purposefully removed his worked-for compression ratio, WHAT WAS THE POINT?!? He didn't have that much chakra to spare based on his compression ratio! Because that constantly changed! That's why Jiraiya could only use it in Sage Mode, and why Cho Odama Rasengan was left to her and mom! Because they would always have Chakra to spare compared to their compression ratios!
Rolling her eyes she'd go back to forming, unforming, and then forming Rasengans again. Truly - the most glorious of training. Ocassionally she'd even make an Odama Rasengan! Sadly she couldn't form a Cho Odama one, after all - she was a Clone, and she was also only 10 years old. So you know - no need to push that much at once when not necessary. 'I really wanna shove a Cho Odama Rasengan at someone though! Imagine, a titanic ball larger than three people just SLAMMED directly into someone. Hehhehehehehe!'
-Taijutsu Clone-
'Studying both the 1st and second Namikaze scroll is like shoving my eyeballs through a grater. At least Dad kindly supplied accurate diagrams... But the names of everything...' Shuddering slightly she'd slowly go through the movements described for specific situations, slowly with the help of a water clone engraining them into muscle memory - which in fact did work for shadow clones. 'Now back to the 'Flip-chock-knee-chop-kick-headbutt-flex combo.'
-Kenjutsu Clone-
Slowly moving through the blade through the air she'd stop and shake her head. 'Without another Uzumaki scroll, I'm having to adapt Kunai techniques and it's difficult... But certainly interesting. I should be able to get the 2nd Uzumaki Scroll soon, and I doubt Gramps knows where the third one is... Considering the 3rd one would literally just be completely full of Forbidden stuff even for Jonin-level Uzumaki... Mom probably knows. Aah fuck, what am I kidding? I'll probably just have to find the house and It'll be on the kitchen table.'
"Yes. Yes, it is." Of course, it is. Which meant she'd have to ask Dad or Mom where it was when she finally met them. 'Considering I've never heard of the 'Dead Yondaime-sama's house, it probably turned invisible upon the death of Mom or Dad, maybe upon the death of both of them.' With that, she'd go back to slowly practicing.
-Bukijutsu (Kunai) Clone-
'What the fuck dad.' Staring at the second Namikaze scroll she'd stare in complete and utter fucking horror. She now knew how her dad managed to cut through the eight-tails tentacle with a Kunai seemingly not filled with Chakra. Because it fucking wasn't. He didn't even know what he filled it with.
It was a mixture of pure Spiritual Energy, Nature Energy, and something else. 'He made fucking Kunai Intent. Seriously, what the fuck Dad. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LEARN THIS?!? No wonder all of the Kunai moves even in the first scroll are insane, this isn't Ninja bullshit, this is Cultivator bullshit!'
'Hashirama and Madara have battle mechs. Nagato has eyes that have ties to Reincarnation and its Six Paths and of course Hell. Isshiki has eyes that relate to the transcendence of the Six Paths, and thus the cycle of Reincarnation and thus the Mortal world I.E the Universe. Of course, he hadn't actually reached that step. You? You have fucking cultivator bullshit. God damn-'
She ranted internally for a long, long, long time. Before slowly beginning the 'training methods' laid out.
-Fuinjutsu Clone-
Technically speaking, she didn't have to keep reading from this scroll at this point. She could move onto Jonin level Fuinjutsu - but... She hadn't even read 1% of what was inside of the scroll. This was the thousand-year Fuinjutsu Collection of ALL Academy, Genin, and Chunin-related Fuinjutsu Arts of the Uzumaki. It was every tome, every scroll, every thought ever penned down. It wasn't just about learning more Fuinjutsu, or even more theory. It was about understanding her clan. Understanding why they thought, and why they did things. Back when the clan existed, for many Uzumaki Fuinjutsu was their life. Naruko wanted to understand that. 'Of course, the cool Fuinjutsu not taught in the 'main course' are also sweet! I'll have to ask Gramps where the second scroll is soon, however. If not for the Fuinjutsu, but for the Kenjutsu and the Water Style.' Luckily for the 2nd Stage of Water Manipulation, all she had to do was ask Gramps.
She hadn't mastered that completely of course - but it was enough to where she had decided to stop for now when she changed up her training. 'Now what's this about making Ramen with seals?'
-Chakra Control / Adamantine Sealing Chains Clone -
Balancing on a running waterfall with three chains juggling boulders, all the while a water clone threw Kunai at her wasn't fun... IT WAS FUCKING AMAZING!
"Yes! Throw more! WOOH!" The Kunai found themselves halting a few inches away from her - all thanks to the Chakra Control exercise mentioned to her long ago by Coyote. Needless to say, her chakra control was going well. 'Makes sense. Pretty much beyond this, the only thing is bettering Rasengan for Shape Manipulation, mastering the Elements, learning Sage Mode, and then mastering MYSELF. I'm practically at the limits of chakra control to the known world. At least in this aspect. Even learning Sage Mode is more along the lines of learning myself more, and better aligning my Physical and Spiritual Stamina. I think. Probably. Maybe.'
-Main Body-
"Five forest laps... six forest laps... seven forest laps..." 'Why is it that I get the most boring job of training speed and endurance, before swapping to training upper body strength? Those lucky fucking clones! These A-Rank and S-Rank Shunshin are pretty interesting though, dad truly was a genius when it came to training speed. But making these instinctive is going to be incredibly hard.'
Jumping through an impossible tight hoop made out of branches, she'd rolled through a Kunai trap, and jumped over a tripwire, before diving under a self-made neck-decapitating wire trap.
'Even Dad probably only made one of these S-Rank variants instinctive huh? If he had mastered all of this he would be far faster than what he showed... Unless he did here? Can't tell. Mastering all the A-Rank would probably make me equal to Canon Version 1 of the Fourth Raikage in speed, and Mastering all the S-Rank would make me far superior to even his Version 2. Of course, this is discounting things that would boost it even further, such as my weight training growing massively more, age, Sage Made, K-chan, or so many more things. Actually, now that I think about it, Dad probably only managed to make all the A-Rank Shunshin training instinctive, huh? After all, he primarily relied on the Flying Thunder God, and probably used wind or lightning chakra when moving around on foot as well.'
Shrugging she'd continue along her laps before finally stopping. 'Alright upper body strength time.' Adjusting the 'bracelets' she wore she'd begin to train. 'Push-ups! Crunches! Pull-ups! Other shit! Weeeeee! Fucking clones, can't do the most boring training ever...'